Over the years, asbestos has been used in thousands of products, anything from a cigarette filter to an ironing board cover.
The most obvious products that contained asbestos were building products and insulation products.
Building products such as flat and corrugated sheets of asbestos were installed in millions of homes in Australia up until the early 1980s. If your home was built prior to this time, asbestos cement sheets can often be found in the eaves, in the cladding of the home or in wet areas such as the laundry or bathroom areas.
Insulation products, such as pipe lagging, were more common in factories. However pipe lagging was also used in residential homes, such as on hot water systems.
